Spirit Journey (Oculus Go & Gear VR)

System: Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Go
Price at Time Of Review: £2.29 ($3)
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: Adventure
Input: Touchpad
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

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Description: You will embark on a spiritual journey inside yourself. Lanterns floating in the air will guide your way through the pitfalls of your own thoughts and memories. You will have to find them quickly and aim precisely to pull yourself towards them. Fight gravity pulling you towards the abyss or spikes! Beating all of the 10 levels placed among Asian floating islands will require a calm mind and a fast hand – do you have what it takes?

Review: The idea of Spirit Journey is to go on some weird, flying ninja style action adventure where the goal of the game is to get to point A to point B. OK, things are never that simple and you soon realise this involves flying from flying lantern to flying lantern. But some of them drop you, some you need to get close to activate and with some you need to drop towards the ground in order to get to them, meaning a heart-pounding drop closely followed by a quick tap to get to the next lantern.

Set over ten levels this is a game of fast reactions and quick touchpad taps. With an odd graphical style set around an Asian theme, it does indeed often feel like a spiritual journey around some oddly beautiful lands. While the game will get the heart racing it is also quite relaxing at the same time.

Spirit Journey has an odd style to it that reminds me of old ninja films where they fly about like weird birds (only you would often see the string they were hanging from). But that isn’t a bad thing at all and I did enjoy it. The game has a certain puzzle / strategy style to it and you soon realise that getting from lantern A-B is not easy at all and even in some of the early stages you will die a few times. OK, so it only has 10 stages, but they will take a while to do meaning you will get more than your moneys worth.